Clicking on any links in any PDF causes Adobe Acrobat Reader to hang and crash

1. Open any PDF document that contains a hyperlink in Adobe Acrobat Reader
2. Windows 11 (Continuous Release I Version 2023.006.20320 I 64-bit)
3. I expected to open the link in my default browser in Windows 11
4. The application hangs (spinning mouse cursor) and becomes unresponsive. After 10 seconds of this, I have to close Adobe Reader and try again. But it does that again. Unable to open any link whatsoever. I just copy the link by highlighting it in the PDF and paste in the browser. Much much quicker! But it means that clicking on any links in Adobe Reader there is a serious delay and becomes totally unresponsive when the link is clicked and when the program asks me to open it